[Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt By Children at Play] concerns itself with discovery and being lost, and how one can only truly be achieved through the other, composing a series of striking poems deliberately meant to occasionally unsettle, forcing a deeper attention of his incredibly sharp and precise poems. rob mclennans blog Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play is a kind of portmanteau book, full of disparate goodies, all of which tantalize the taste buds. Eclectic Ruckus Disjunction and interrogation form the backbone of Jake Kennedys Merz Structure No. 2 Burnt by Children at Play. The poems in the collection circle each other, continuously question themselves and embrace a position of uncertainty. Nina Jane Drystek, Arc Poetry Magazine
JAKE KENNEDY is the author of two poetry collections: The Lateral and Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic. His work has appeared in literary journals across Canada, the US, and the UK, including The Capilano Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and The Awl. Kennedy is the recipient of the bpNichol Chapbook Award for Hazard (BookThug, 2007), the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry for The Lateral (2010), and the Robin Blaser Award for Poetry for the long poem "Futuromani" (2011). He also received a BC Arts Council Writing Grant in 2013. Kennedy lives in Kelowna, BC, where he teaches English literature and creative writing at Okanagan College.